Israel Appoints First Ambassador To Somaliland After Formally Recognizing Breakaway State
Barely 4 months after formally recognizing Somaliland in a move which drew widespread condemnation from the international community, Israel has appointed its former ambassador to Kenya, Michael Lotem, as its first ambassador to Somaliland.
Somaliland declared its independence from Somalia on May 18, 1991, yet remained unrecognised as a sovereign state by any other country until December 26, 2025, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed a document formally recognising the breakaway East African state.
The African Union, the Arab League and Somalia itself have all strongly condemned Israel’s move, calling it a violation of international law and a threat to Somalia’s unity and stability.
Somali President, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, has described the move as a geopolitical gambit on the part of Israel to expand its military footprint on the African continent, and use Somaliland as a launchpad to attack other nations. He has stressed that Somalia has no intentions of allowing Israeli boots on its soil, and will defend itself with deadly force if necessary.
Since escalating its decades-long genocidal campaign against the people of Palestine in October 2023 and perpetrating some of the most horrific atrocities in living memory – atrocities which continue despite a supposed ceasefire brokered by the U.S. government – Israel has been looking to Africa as a dumping ground for the survivors of its genocide. South Africa, Sudan and Somaliland have each been considered, making this latest development in the latter nation every African’s business.
On the 16th of December 25, I discovered a deadly evil being perpetuated by citizens against fellow citizens. In the course of this story, I'll make use of fictional names but real locations where they occured.
On that Tuesday morning, Olamide, a 25 year old boy came back to his apartment in Rumuigbo with his Toks Lexus RX 350, which he bought the previous week, and was celebrating with everyone. He had picked up the car from Apapa, Lagos, where he went with a mechanic whom he met on FB marketplace and drove down to see his people in Delta before proceeding to PH on that day. The car had been in his possession for over 7 days before he came to PH.
Let me give you a backstory on Olamide. He is an only son with 6 sisters and he is the 4th child. His father is in Quatar, working as a boat operator and his mother is a teacher in one of the government secondary schools in Delta state. Olamide is a waiter in one prominent place in Onne, hence the urge to get a car. His dad sent him the money for the car since the boy wasn't patient enough for one to be shipped to him.
While we were celebrating, we heard gunshots outside the gate and almost immediately the gate flew wide open. Operatives of EFCC and NPF filled the compound and everyone was in panic mode. I sharply went inside and called the NAF base and Army barracks, sent my location and went outside. I was on pass so I had no official capacity to act, hence my silence. They told everyone to lie down, started rough handling everyone. Some started going door to door, pounding and shouting that everyone must come out. I tried talking to the one I sensed was the most senior and he shunned me. I didn't argue or drag. They checked their tablet and kept pointing at the car, "oga na the car be this. Tracker no dey lie." While they were at it, 4 vans filled with soldiers arrived, and 6 of them came into the compound. Upon seeing them, I got up immediately and told everyone on the floor to stand.
We started asking questions, and they said the car belonged to a yahoo boy and it was seized by the EFCC. They claimed the car was missing from their lot and they have been tracking it for over 4 months, so I had Olamide describe the vendor's location and calls were made to Lagos, some soldiers and some members of the Lagos RRS stormed the place, picked up the seller and began interrogating him. That's where things went dark.
The car seller has an active agreement with a handful from the EFCC. If a young guy buys a car, they install trackers and sell it to him, wait for some days and bust the guy, retrieve the car and arrest him while tagging him a yahoo boy. The car is then returned to the car dealer and the dealer gives EFCC their own share from the car sales proceeds. The mechanic is in on it also.
After all these exposé, I realized that we have a very long way to go as a country.
To the young men, do your research before you walk into any dealership to buy a car. Ask questions, swallow pride. That 24-48 hours of information gathering will save you a long time in prison.
China's development came at the cost of 30 - 50 million Chinese people who died during the Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward, plus another 200 million Chinese people who were prevented from existing by the 1-child policy.
And yes, it absolutely was worth it.
Get over yourself.
N101.3m was allocated to the Completion of the Ongoing Rehabilitation of Asphaltic Concrete Road and Provision of Trapezoidal Drainages by Special Intervention Programme at Femi Kila Street, Life Camp, FCT-Abuja in the 2024 FG Budget.
We tracked and report that this project has not been done. Residents are unable to commute easily and safely, Infact, the rain has worsened the issue, sometimes causing water to enter their homes.
We call on @fmhud_ng, the implementing agency to provide the public with details of this project and facilitate its execution.
AIR PEACE DEBUNKS OSHIOMOLE’S ALLEGATIONS OF EXTORTION
Our attention has been drawn to the deliberate falsehood being peddled by Senator Adams Oshiomole against Air Peace.
The Senator lied blatantly when he accused Air Peace of extorting its passengers. We challenge Senator Oshiomole to bring one evidence of a passenger that was extorted.
None of our staff ever extorted any passenger. In fact, no ticket was sold after the closure of check-in on that flight. Everyone who flew bought their ticket prior to the flight closure.
Again, our flight was never overbooked as some of his videos alleged. In fact, the aircraft took off with over thirty (30) empty seats. It would have been in our interest to carry Oshiomhole and those others who missed their flights for lateness on this flight, instead of flying many empty seats; but we will never sacrifice our strict on-time performance for monetary gains.
It’s absolutely false that he was offered preferential treatment and that he was fighting for others. Senator Oshiomole was not fighting for anyone. He came to the airport late and was told that he was late. He then began to forment trouble. He jumped on the baggage conveyor belt preventing the check-in process of other flights. He also barricaded the entrance gate and prevented access to the terminal. While he was doing all these, he also deliberately instigated other passengers against the Airline.
We call on the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to release the CCTV coverage starting from the time Senator Oshiomole entered the airport, for Nigerians to see. His accusation of extortion is very defamatory. His conduct was very violent, unbecoming, unfortunate and above all, shameful.
SIGNED
MANAGEMENT
I'm sure it's been mentioned before, but the circulation of the black and white version of this photograph is part of the usual psy-op to convince black people that this was a very long time ago.
It wasn't. You can easily find the original colour photo on Google and many of the people in this photo are still very much alive.
Our Community Champions Training is back!!!
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I love the part where he mentioned where over 800 Nigerians were killed in 2011 by buhari's CPC islamists/jihadists supporters simply cos he lost.
Obidients, if U like allow any idiot blackmail you with "you're too toxic".
We haven't done 1% of what these APC guys did.
“When Peter Obi was the Governor of Anambra state, as soon as he gets a file for project, he will check the units cost and even call people in the market to confirm the price by himself”—Mr. Oke.
While Tinubu Continues to Search for Investors, Egypt Receives $35 Billion in Foreign Investment from UAE in Two Months
The Egyptian government, under the leadership of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, has achieved a significant milestone in foreign
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The government didn't ban Gokada because of safety. Containers kill citizens every fortnight have they banned it?
Comot that your cap if na im dey impede your ability to think.
Fuel Scarcity: Trigg£r-happy police officer fatally sh%%ts man who tried to stop him from jumping queue at a filling station in Lagos
The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed that one of its officers sh%t and k+lled a young man at a filling station belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited at Obalende area of the state on Wednesday evening, May 1.